Malik Bozzo-Rey, Anne Brunon-Ernst (dir.), Nudges et normativités. Généalogies, concepts et applications, Hermann, 15 Janvier 2018. Lorsqu’il est question d’influencer le comportement des individus à l’aide de politiques publiques ou d’interventions gouvernementales, certains préféreront parler de contrôle social. Nous pouvons remarquer que la première décennie du XXIe siècle est marquée par la volonté de développer …
Editor: I am pleased to announce a new book which I translated which will be out in August. Foucault at the Movies Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan. Translated and Edited by Clare O’Farrell Columbia University Press, forthcoming July 2018 Michel Foucault’s work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his …
Isabelle Galichon, Le récit de soi. Une pratique éthique d’émancipation, Ouverture Philosophique, Paris. L’Harmattan, 2018 Les derniers travaux de Michel Foucault peuvent être appréhendés comme une nouvelle grille de lecture pour l’analyse des pratiques d’écriture personnelle dont peut se saisir la théorie littéraire. Dans ses cours au Collège de France sur les pratiques de soi …
Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault — Philosophy and Psychology (1965), From the Verso Books blog, 9 January 2018 Watch a televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault on philosophy and psychology. A televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault, under the heading “Philosophy and Psychology,” is available to stream in …
Frieder Vogelmann, The Spell of Responsibility. Labor, Criminality, Philosophy Trans. Daniel Steuer, Bloomsbury, 2017 Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it had little ethical significance. What is the …
Amy Allen, The End of Progress. Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2016 (2017 paperback) While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and …
Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics. Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Translated by Erik Butler, Verso 2017 See also Review in The Guardian Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast …
Mark G. E. Kelly, For Foucault. Against Normative Political Theory, SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Calls for a Foucauldian approach to political thought that is intrinsically resistant to power and subordination to public policy. This book comprises a series of staged confrontations between the thought of Michel Foucault and a cast of other figures …
Jacopo Martire, A Foucauldian Interpretation of Modern Law. From Sovereignty to Normalisation and Beyond, Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Addresses a surprisingly overlooked Foucauldian conundrum: what is the logical relationship between modern law and power? Jacopo Martire investigates the development of modern law in conjunction with what Foucault termed biopolitical forms of power. He gives you …
The Birth of Austerity. German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism Edited by Thomas Biebricher and Frieder Vogelmann, Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 Description Ordoliberalism and the ‘Freiburg School’ have gained traction in contemporary political economy in response to two factors: a rising interest in governmentality studies and the banking, financial and sovereign debt crisis …
